Calligraphy class

Week 1

Homework:

• Do at least one page of practice pangrams.
• On a separate page, letter a quotation that you would like to work on as a finished piece. Choose a quotation no longer than 20 words.
• Here is the guidelines page in PDF format, and more resources are here.

The week in review:

• glossary of calligraphy terms
• discussion and demo of best practices for arranging your work area
• demo - monoline italics
  

  With a monoline italic, we don’t have to worry about thicks and thins. My teacher, Peter Thornton, says that there are only two kinds of mistakes you can make in forming a lettering: 1) shape, and 2) pen angle. The second mistake can only be made with a broad-edged pen, so we’re going to save that for next week.

• letter space and ligatures
• exercise: first attempts and feedback
• how to practice
• group order to John Neal